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Local and self-hosted AI

A focused map for tools, models, and workspaces that can keep more AI work on your own device, server, or account boundary.

Local does not automatically mean private. Open the source, check where data goes, and test with low-risk files before trusting it with important work.

First question

Where should the work live?

Start by separating on-device models, self-hosted workspaces, local desktop tools, and privacy helpers before comparing features.

Privacy check

Local is not magic privacy

A local tool may still call outside services, store files in unclear places, or need accounts and keys. Check the source path before using real data.

Fallback planning

Keep an exit path

Look for export options, model choices, file formats, hardware needs, and whether the workflow can survive if one provider or app changes.

Last updated

July 9, 2026

Use this page to narrow what to explore next, not as an endorsement, recommendation, guarantee, or safety review. Open the original source before relying on setup, terms, limits, privacy, access, or costs.

Local workspaces and assistants

Tools that keep more work near you

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Use this group when the question is whether an assistant, workspace, or meeting tool can run closer to your own files and accounts.

AnythingLLM

Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

GitHub

A local-first AI workspace for chatting with documents, using agents, connecting local or cloud model providers, adding MCP tools, building agent flows, and running as desktop, self-hosted, or hosted software.

Local-first AI workspace, agents, document chat Added to LifeHubber: July 7, 2026

Osaurus

osaurus-ai/osaurus

GitHub

A Mac-native AI agent harness for Apple Silicon, with local and cloud model options, agents, memory, tools, cryptographic identity, MCP and local API paths, privacy-filter materials, plugin routes, and optional macOS 26 sandbox features.

Mac-native local-first agent harness Added to LifeHubber: June 20, 2026

nanobot

HKUDS/nanobot

GitHub

A lightweight personal AI agent project with packaged WebUI, goal tracking, Python SDK runtime controls, automation management, provider and channel integrations, and durability work highlighted in its v0.2.2 release.

Personal agents, durable WebUI

NanoClaw

qwibitai/nanoclaw

GitHub

A lightweight personal agent system that runs agents in isolated containers and connects them to messaging channels, memory, and scheduled jobs.

Personal agents, container isolation Added to LifeHubber: April 26, 2026

Vane

ItzCrazyKns/Vane

GitHub

A self-hostable AI answering engine for private search-style workflows, with local and cloud model providers, SearxNG-backed web search, cited sources, file uploads, and Docker setup paths.

Private AI answering engine Added to LifeHubber: May 13, 2026

Meetily

Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

GitHub

A local-first AI meeting assistant with public source, desktop release assets for Windows and macOS, Linux source-build docs, live transcription, meeting summaries, local Whisper or Parakeet transcription, local or external LLM summary options, optional analytics, and an MIT license.

Local meeting transcription and summaries Added to LifeHubber: July 6, 2026

OpenOats

yazinsai/OpenOats

GitHub

A meeting note-taking assistant designed to be more conversational and responsive than passive transcription.

Meetings, note-taking

HTML Anything

nexu-io/html-anything

GitHub

A local agentic HTML editor that uses existing coding-agent CLI sessions to turn Markdown, data, and notes into exportable HTML, PNGs, decks, social cards, data reports, and web prototypes with skill templates and sandboxed preview.

Agentic HTML editor, local agent workflows Added to LifeHubber: June 2, 2026

On-device and local model paths

Models and runtimes to check before relying on hosted AI

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These entries help compare smaller models, local formats, and hardware routes when the fallback path matters.

Gemma 4

google/gemma-4

Hugging Face

A Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model family collection with public checkpoints including Gemma 4 12B, a dense multimodal model Google describes around local agentic workflows, native audio input, and encoder-free vision/audio handling.

Multimodal models, local agents

LFM2.5-230M

LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M

Hugging Face

Liquid AI's 230M-parameter LFM2.5 text model for lightweight on-device agentic pipelines, data extraction, and edge inference, with Hugging Face weights, GGUF, ONNX, and MLX variants, 32K context notes, tool-use guidance, and official docs/blog materials.

Small on-device model, data extraction Added to LifeHubber: June 25, 2026

LFM2.5-350M

LiquidAI/LFM2.5-350M

Hugging Face

A hybrid model in the LFM2.5 family built for on-device deployment, with extended pre-training and reinforcement learning.

On-device models

LFM2.5-8B-A1B

LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Hugging Face

A Liquid AI hybrid model with 8.3B total parameters, 1.5B active parameters, long-context support, tool-use notes, local formats, and deployment paths for edge and agentic workflows.

On-device model, tool use Added to LifeHubber: May 29, 2026

MiniCPM5-1B

OpenBMB/MiniCPM5-1B

ModelScope

An OpenBMB 1B-class language model for local assistants, coding agents, tool-use, reasoning, and long-context workflows, with 131K context, Think / No Think modes, standard LlamaForCausalLM architecture, and deployment paths across Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, Docker, GGUF, Ollama, LM Studio, and MLX.

Small local model, tool use Added to LifeHubber: May 26, 2026

Supertonic

supertone-inc/supertonic

GitHub

An on-device multilingual text-to-speech system built around ONNX Runtime, with local inference, 31-language support, expression tags, model assets, and examples across browser, mobile, desktop, and edge runtimes.

On-device multilingual TTS Added to LifeHubber: May 16, 2026

Optimum Intel 2.0

huggingface/optimum-intel

Hugging Face

A Hugging Face toolkit for exporting, quantizing, compressing, and running Hub models through OpenVINO on Intel CPUs, Arc GPUs, and Core Ultra NPUs, with v2.0 making OpenVINO and NNCF the default path and release notes covering newer text, vision-language, speech, video, and diffusion model support.

Local model optimization on Intel hardware Added to LifeHubber: June 15, 2026

Files and privacy helpers

Data tools to check before sending files elsewhere

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Use this group when the work starts with documents, audio, images, or sensitive text and you need to check the local or privacy path first.

OpenAI Privacy Filter

openai/privacy-filter

GitHub

A privacy-filtering model and local toolkit for detecting and masking personally identifiable information in text, positioned around high-throughput sanitization workflows.

Privacy tooling, PII filtering Added to LifeHubber: April 23, 2026

insanely-fast-whisper

Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper

GitHub

An opinionated CLI for very fast on-device transcription with Whisper.

Transcription, local inference

Fooocus

lllyasviel/Fooocus

GitHub

A local image-generation interface built around prompt-focused SDXL workflows, with Windows downloads, Colab access, inpainting, outpainting, image prompts, and presets.

Image generation UI Added to LifeHubber: May 2, 2026

PaddleOCR

PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

GitHub

A document AI toolkit for OCR, document parsing, structured Markdown and JSON outputs, PaddleOCR-VL document parsing, PP-StructureV3 conversion, PP-OCRv6 scene OCR, and workflows that feed RAG or agent systems.

OCR and document AI Added to LifeHubber: April 23, 2026

Surya

datalab-to/surya

GitHub

A Datalab document OCR and analysis toolkit for OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition, math-aware output, vLLM or llama.cpp backends, and structured document results.

Document OCR and layout analysis Added to LifeHubber: May 31, 2026

olmOCR

allenai/olmocr

GitHub

An Ai2 toolkit for converting PDFs, PNGs, and JPEG document images into clean Markdown or text for downstream AI workflows, with local GPU, remote vLLM/OpenAI-compatible server, Docker, benchmark, model-card, and demo paths.

PDF OCR and document conversion Added to LifeHubber: July 2, 2026

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